We have embarked on a project together with QLD Ballet dancer and choreographer Jack Lister to fuse dance with visual art. Frustrated with the lack of dialogue between different artistic disciplines, we decided to take matters into our own hands and create a work of art that embraces each others processes. Essentially we are creating a work of art with 3 principal layers, dance, film and digital art. Stage 1 involved Jack choreographing a series of movements and performing them with his colleague and friend, QLD Ballet dancer Sarah Thompson. Together they created a truly moving piece that will literally make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end - they are NOT human!! Stage 2 began on Monday night. Cinematographer Greg Henderson joined forces with Jack and I to capture the dance on film. The result left us all speechless and the final footage will serve as the base for Stage 3 where local digital artist Gert Geyer will work back into the frames to create an animated digital artwork. We will debut the work in laser projection at Marie Claire - Up Late on James Street - March 12! In the meantime, here is a behind the scenes look at Stage 1 & Stage 2 in production. Stay tuned!!

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A digital revolution is underway and it is impacting the way artists are making and displaying their work. Cutting edge contemporary artists from around the world are embracing new digital technologies, processes and philosophies in their work and as a gallery, we are embracing a new way of thinking about displaying and selling the artists work. Art has become ubiquitous thanks to the internet and new printing technologies have reduced the cost of creating high quality digital artworks, allowing for the artists work to be disseminated all over the world. Art is activated by the viewer and our belief is the more people that view the work the better. Formless to Form is an exhibition that explores the artistic renaissance that has been spawned by the digital revolution. FORMLESS refers to the digital component of their work and FORM to the manifestation of their artwork in a physical creation. Exhibiting in the exhibition will be:

• Ed Granger
• Matt Sheridan
• Greg MacLaughlin
• Keren Paz
• Jenny Sharaf

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We were approached by James Street to give our take on why it's important to buy local. Christmas might have passed, but the reasons to buy locally remain the same.

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Launching this month will be a collaborative venture between Brooklyn artist Ed Granger and TWFINEART. We have worked together to bring to you 8 exclusive works by the artist in limited edition print.

Ed Granger's Art + Context

“At once composed and formless, I owe an obvious debt to the Fauvists’ supremacy of color over form, an aesthetic approach in harmony—or is it tension?—within these structurally informed compositions. Granger's background in architecture is evident is his compositions. Their controlled fluidity is an intentional effort to create something at once structured and formless, but also allowing the process to happen by chance. His works are about being synchronized in time and space and Granger's intent is to allow his work to act as a vessel to receive a conscious awareness of these subconscious events of daily life, which embodies one’s abnormal physical and psychological stages.”

Granger's work represents awkwardly beautiful fantasy worlds. Nature is a subtle, understated condition in my work. I have always been interested in creating works that asks the viewer to participate in the dialogue and or interaction between objects and their environment.

Granger collect things that have a nostalgic or dreamlike feel that would represent an oeuvre of spirited work that inhibit thought, and early nostalgia electricity with painterly qualities and color over direct representation and realistic values. As he works his way through each layer, the older, beginning layers start to fade away and allow them work their way into the foreground of the composition. Based on his experimental qualities, Ed chooses how the material and its physical presence can rely on another material to do something peculiar and sometimes obscure, to create a language of it’s own. By deconstructing these elements and putting them back together in a pure yet raw fashion, he able to find a repetitive process that engages the viewer and makes you question your senses, which is the source of matter and the space in which we exist. (through our senses is why we choose to live this physical existence) The overlapping of these materials is also way to collect memories or revert back to lost moments, dreams, or childhood.

[caption id="attachment_13264" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Smeared, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Ed Granger[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13266" align="aligncenter" width="542"] Checkered, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Ed Granger[/caption]  

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We recently added many fantastic pieces to our limited edition print portfolio. Here is a small selection of the beautiful new work:

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CLAY MAHN: Clay is one of the youngest artists in our portfolio, but his work is extremely sophisticated. Influenced by the OP ART & Minimalist movements, Mahn constructs these complex spaces with just a few forms. [caption id="attachment_12014" align="alignleft" width="504"] Untitled, 2014. Print by Clay Mahn[/caption]      

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CHRYS GRUMMERT Chrys has been working on these gorgeous free form paintings, building layer and layer of enamel paint to create vibrant, minimal statement pieces. [caption id="attachment_12234" align="alignleft" width="573"] Untitled V, 2014. Print by Chrys Grummert[/caption] [caption id="attachment_12242" align="alignleft" width="564"] Untitled II, 2014. Print by Chrys GrummertLAUREN SIMMONDS:[/caption]

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LAUREN SIMMONDS Lauren Simmonds is a Melbourne based artist who is doing wonderful things with paper. Her delicate sculptures play with 2 dimensional surfaces, transforming flat paper surface into complex dimensional sculptures. We have added a series of drawings, photographs and collages that epitomize her practice and make beautiful limited edition prints. [caption id="attachment_12121" align="alignleft" width="568"] Weighted Drawing, 2014. Print by Lauren Simmonds[/caption] [caption id="attachment_12108" align="alignleft" width="528"] Skin & Bone, 2014. Print by Lauren Simmonds[/caption]

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